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AKARTA: The trial of suspected terrorist mastermind Umar Patek heard on Thursday about the immediate and long-term effects of the first Bali bombing from a forensic expert and other Balinese officials.

Ida Bagus Putu, a forensic expert at Sanglah Hospital at the time of the bombing in October 2002, told the West Jakarta District Court that among the corpses he dealt with, “There were those whose bodies had been destroyed, those who were unidentifiable, and those who were brought in as body parts.”

Bagus said it had taken three months to determine all the details about the 202 victims, of whom he said 199 were identifiable.

Bagus added that the hospital received 325 body parts, including 140 that were too damaged to be identified. Of the bodies, Bagus could only confirm that 78 were women and 107 were men.

He said the identified bodies were people from 21 countries including 87 Australians, 36 Indonesians, and 22 British.

Bagus said that apart from burns, the bodies had “missile wounds” from objects that had pierced their flesh at high speed, confirming that these bodies belonged to bomb victims.

Ngurah Mas Wijaya Kusuma, an immigration-office worker, said he dealt with immigration “before, during and after the bombing”.

According to Kusuma, an average of 100,000 to 159,000 foreigners had arrived on Bali each month before the Bali bombing took place.